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20 years of Cyprus in the EU – Phoebus Athanassiou
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Phoebus Athanassiou, you are Associate Professor at the Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt.
How old were you when Cyprus, your country of origin, became a member of the European Union on the 1st of May 2004?
I was 28 years old, working as an associate at a law firm in Athens, where I lived at the time. Actually, the day I remember more clearly was 16 April 2003, when the Treaty of Accession for the 2004 enlargement was signed in Athens, at the Attalos Arcade, at the heart of the Athens Agora.
It was a sunny spring day, and the Athenian sky smiled down at the representatives of the ten new Member States as they took the final big step before their countries’ formal EU accession, one